Talk:Buddhist religious philosophy

Oppose Merge
I oppose merging this article into Buddhist Philosophy. There are many people including myself who try to adhere to Buddhist ideals and principles without being religious about it in any way. The two articles cover distinct areas of knowledge. The merge notice should be removed. Hu 20:35, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Rename or a different merge
Oppose. I agree with Hu above to some degree. His argument goes back to the religion vs. philosophy debate that one can find on Talk:Buddhism. I feel that this article should be renamed to something along the lines of Three Schools of Buddhism. There is little philosophical content to be found here, but a very nice discussion of the differences between the three schools.

Another option is to merge this page with a *clean* version of Buddhism since this is fundamental to Buddhism in general. Sadly, the Buddhism page is too muddled as it is right now. This page, on the otherhand, is nice and streamlined. Csbodine 22:27, 9 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Yeah, it seems, I tend to agree with most what Csbodine said above. Including renaming to Three Schools of Buddhism. --Klimov 14:35, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

I agree, this page has a misleading name, it is not about the philosophy, but about the many ways to interpret the Buddha Dharma, it would be possible to rename it Three Schools of Buddhism but i'm not sure it is right.

For Buddhists it is more three chariots or vehicles than three philosophies or even schools, the article itself say that they are differenciated along the intent or level of motivation we could also add it is also differentiated by the means that are used.

In abhidhamma what is called school of Bhuddism are These schools and others are also the subject of a detailed article:Schools_of_Buddhism
 * for the hinayana the many philosophicals interpretation of the sutras ( vaibashikas, Sautrantika, ...(The Sects of the Buddhists)) as summarized by Bhuddism, Early_Buddhist_schools and the beginning of History_of_Buddhist_schools (but this one doesn't say much more than the former)
 * for the Madhyamaka the Svatantrika, Prasangika and Yogacara Madhyamaka
 * for the Vajrayana the 8 tibetans schools.

In any case the word «Religious philosophy» is very inapropriate for these three vehicles, still more inapropriate with this singular «Philosophy»

I would suggest to merge it with the Schools_of_Buddhism, inserting it at the beginning to explain the three categories in which are classified these Schools_of_Buddhism. --marc 14:52, 25 March 2006 (UTC)